Fitzcarraldo

E391469

Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 Werner Herzog adventure-drama film, starring Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale, about an obsessed man’s quixotic quest to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Fitzcarraldo canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf adventure drama film
film
awardReceived Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival 1982
cinematographyBy Thomas Mauch
Viktor Růžička
countryOfOrigin Peru
West Germany
director Werner Herzog
directorCollaborationWith Klaus Kinski
distributor Filmverlag der Autoren
editedBy Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
featuresArtForm opera
filmingLocation Amazon rainforest
Peruvian jungle
genre adventure film
drama film
hasCultStatus yes
hasMakingOfDocumentary Burden of Dreams
hasTheme ambition
art versus nature
madness
obsession
inspiredBy life of Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald
mainCharacter Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald
mainCharacterAlias Fitzcarraldo
musicBy Popol Vuh
notableMusicUsed Giacomo Puccini opera recordings
Richard Wagner opera recordings
notableScene A steamship is hauled over a steep hill between two rivers.
originalLanguage German
Spanish
partOfFilmMovement German New Cinema
surface form: New German Cinema
plotSummary An obsessed man attempts to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle.
posterCharacter Klaus Kinski as Fitzcarraldo
producer Lucki Stipetić
Werner Herzog
releaseYear 1982
runtimeMinutes 158
screenedAt Cannes Film Festival
surface form: 1982 Cannes Film Festival
setIn Iquitos
Peruvian Amazon
starring Claudia Cardinale
José Lewgoy
Klaus Kinski
Miguel Ángel Fuentes NERFINISHED
Paul Hittscher
workOf Werner Herzog
writer Werner Herzog

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Claudia Cardinale notableWork Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo mainCharacterAlias Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog notableWork Fitzcarraldo
Werner Herzog directed Fitzcarraldo